The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20
Farm Notes.

Currycomb and brush well applied are the
best medicines to aid horses and cattle while
they are shedding their coats.
1t is said that the milk of cows that arc
sated regularly churns much more easily
than the milk of cows not sailed.
Intelligent and wi6eawalIe farmers are
more and more considering the Importance
| of level culture for the corn plant.
A South Carolina farmer says ne cured
hog cholera by giving the animals a liberal
supply of bicarbonate of soda and salt mixed
in equal proportions.
The character of manure is largely deter
mined by the food That from hogs and
poultry is always rich, because these kinds
of stock are giving grain and concentrated
| food
| In vegetable growing deep, rich soil, now
so generally condemned for fruit gardens,
is of the first Importance. Soil cannot be
too rich or too deep If we would have good
vegetables.
| Soapsuds make special fertilizer for eel
cry, and where only small space can be de
voted to that crop, as in a garden, all the
| soapsuds of the house should be saved and
| applied thereon.
Prof. johnson, of the Michigan Agricul-
| tural College, thinks it is better to have sew
eral small silos than one that is large. He
to one ton of hay.
At this season it is best to ship poultry to
market alive, as the warm weather is not
favorable to the keeping of dressed car
cases; hence they must be sold Immediately
or decomposition may result.
1t is estimated that the expense of sup
| porting the dogs in this country amounts to
over $50, 900, 600 year, and this does not
include the loss occasioned by the dogs, such
as destroying sheep and birds.
A French paper says that petroleum de-
| stroyes all insects, and banishes rats and
mice, and that water slightly impregnated
with petroleum applied to plants infected
with insects will destroy them.
Toads will eat bees; hence they should be
| guarded against when locating the hive.
| Every bee that falls to the ground when
overloaded with pollen will be seized by a
toad if the latter be under the hives
| Lands that are overstocked not only yield
less food but the animals pastured upon
them make a less yield in beef or milk than
when the stock is in proportion to the capa-
city of the lands for producing food.
A solution of sa1tpetre sprnlled on cab
bages is said to be effective in driving of
the cabbage-fy 1t is harmless, and also
an excellent fertilizer. 1t should be ap
piled twice week, however, and used
| plentlfully.
New land, or clover sod plowed under, is
excellent for turnips. Superphosphate is
one of the best fertilizers for turnips, and in
putting in the crop use plenty of seed in
order to escape the fly, which is very de-
structive during some seasons.
| What we need is not more acres of grain
but more bushels to the acre; not more acres
of meadow, but more tons of hay to the
acre. Fifteen acres of wheat at fifteen
bushels to the acre, at present prices, means
a loss; but ten acres at thirty bushels per
acre insures a nice profit.
Salt will not kill cut worms as is sup
posed, though it is fatal to the white grub.
The only sure way of getting rid Of cut
worms is to plow late in the fall or early
in the spring, so as to allow the frost to
destroy them, as they cannot get back
into the ground after being thrown up by
the pillow.
If the beets, carrots and parsnips have
not made good growth so far apply 10C
pounds of saltpetre per acre. Scatter il
evenly, and the rains Will dissolve and carry
it to the roots of the plants. A few days
after rain, should the saltpetre be applied
the plants will take deeper color and grow
ing these crops is the long time required for
the seeds to terminate, and hence a uniform
field is something unusual,